Thermosphere

This class provides functions for calculating the density, temperature and velocity in the thermosphere. The wind is computed by HWM14 model if hwm14DataDirectory is provided. A quiet thermosphere is assumed if inputfileMagnetic3hAp is not given.

JB2008

Thermosphere parameters from the JB2008 model:

Bowman, B. R., Tobiska, W. K., Marcos, F. A., Huang, C. Y., Lin, C. S., Burke, W. J. (2008). A new empirical thermospheric density model JB2008 using new solar and geomagnetic indices. In AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference and Exhibit. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2008-6438

Name	Type	Annotation
inputfileSolfsmy	filename	solar indices
inputfileDtc	filename
inputfileMagnetic3hAp	filename	indicies for wind model
hwm14DataDirectory	filename	directory containing dwm07b104i.dat, gd2qd.dat, hwm123114.bin

NRLMSIS2

Thermosphere parameters from the NRLMSIS2 model:

Emmert J.D, D.P.Drob, J.M. Picone, et al. (2020), NRLMSIS 2.0: A whole-atmosphere empirical model of temperature and neutral species densities. Earth and Space Science, Volume 8, 3 https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001321

Name	Type	Annotation
inputfileMsis	filename	input NRLMSIS 2.0
inputfileModelParameters	filename	path to msis20.parm file
inputfileMagnetic3hAp	filename	indicies for wind model
hwm14DataDirectory	filename	directory containing dwm07b104i.dat, gd2qd.dat, hwm123114.bin